38% of Amazon shoppers prefer it to other retailers because of its selection of product, compared to only 25% that are enticed by free shipping. Amazon is not just a sales channel - it is where shoppers learn about products to inform buying decisions online or in store. Brands need to see Amazon as an extension of merchandising efforts and optimize product information to fit the needs of the digital shopper. Is your brand ready to tackle Amazon’s digital shelf with precision?

Google Manufacturer Center and Salsify are two of the most powerful resources available for ensuring that this is the case.

Takeaway: Many retailers feel like they are caught somewhere between the stronghold Amazon has on retail and the nimble, digital-native vertical brands (DNVBs) that were built for a digital age. How can those in the middle compete for dollars? It's about investing in your consumer experience. Here are three ways to recapture consumers' hearts in today's omnichannel reality.

Takeaway: Midway through their buyers’ journey, consumers are considering which is the best product to buy based on features, quality, price, and delivery. This moment provides a huge opportunity for retailers and brands to build brand loyalty by minimizing consumer frustration and simplifying their lives.

In part one of this series, we shared lessons in good checkout content for other online retailers. In this second part, we look at validation through reviews. By putting convenience above all and streamlining the checkout, there is a reduction in abandoned shopping carts that even price doesn’t affect. Additional features that can be critical to reducing shopping cart abandonment are peer-to-peer advice and onsite search.

If you want to win sales this holiday season, you need to get your product content on Google, optimize it by injecting some SEO into your PLAs and listen to your customers.

Takeaway: Shopping cart abandonment is the often neglected leaky pipe for ecommerce profits. The rate at which customers who have selected a product and then do not follow through on buying it is highest on mobile phone - 81% of mobile shopping carts are abandoned. We offer three keys to a great mobile phone shopping experience to help you recover these potential sales.

Despite enticing product offerings, ecommerce retailers are getting cart-blocked at checkout. What gives? In 2014, online marketers lost $4 trillion in sales due to merchandise that was abandoned in online shopping carts.

Shoppers are conducting more product research than ever, and that means brands must provide detailed product descriptions that answer all the questions those consumers might have.

There's lots to learn from this year's Amazon Prime Day.

The Takeaway: This year's Amazon Prime Day has taught us few lessons about ecommerce, online shopping behaviors and the modern retail space in general.

Did you buy anything on Amazon Prime Day? If you did, you likely spent around $112, contributing to the $2.5 billion in sales that Amazon raked in. And your order was just one of approximately 22,321,428 other Amazon Prime Day transactions.